Buckle



Feb.,i 26 192@o 1,485J23 R. A. MOORE BUCKLE Filed Nov. 5. 1925 PatentedFeb. 26, 1924.

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Applicauonfmeamvemben s, 1923i serial Nb.- 672,733;

To all whom t may concern:

Be it''known thatLlzRosw'ELL A. MOORE,

a citizen of the United States, residing: at

Waterbury, in the county-1 of NewHaven 5 :and State ofConnecticutfhave.invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles;

and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection withthel accompanying drawings, and the characters of 1c reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent,in

Fig. 1 a view in front elevation of a 1s rustless buckle constructed inaccordance with my invention, shown as applied to a piece of webbing,which is partly broken away.

Fig. 2 an edge view thereof. so Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line 3-3of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 a detached, perspective view on an enlarged scale of the wirebuckle-frame.

My invention relates to an improvement in rustless buckles of the typeshown and described in United States Patent No.

847,811, granted March 19, 1907, on the .application of Morris Peller,the object of my present invention being to produce a so wire-framebuckle in which the wire of the frame is bent to grip the fixed end ofthe webbing, whereby an economy of labor and webbing is effected, allsewing of the web bing being eliminated. y With these ends in view, myinvention consists in a wire-frame rustless buckle having certaindetails of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed outin the claims.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, the buckle-frame consistsof a single piece of wire bent to form two complementary pintles 5,complementary side-bars 6 and a lower bar 7, from which, at pointstoward the ends thereof, two integral, upwardly-opening gripping-hooks 8depend. The said pintles 5 form, in effect, the upper bar of thebuckle-frame and serve to pivotally mount a sheet-metal buckle-lever,which consists of a finger-piece 9, a gripping-edge 10 andmounting-fingers 1l, which are wrapped around the pintles 5. In webbingmy improved buckle, the fixed end 12 of the webbing 13 is inserted intothe upwardly-opening hooks 8, which are then'l swaged y.down Iupon thewebb-ing, g so! bingl is;` permanently *attached tofi the bucklel framewithout/resortingtof sawing', and."y with great 'economy in the amountV-of it used for this purpose. The webbing 13 is then passed from frontto rear, through the webbing-opening 14 of the frame, and thendownwardly and upwardly to form the usual loop, and in front of and overthe hooks 8 and then from front to rear through the webbing-opening andunder the gripping-edge 10 of the buckle-lever, and then upward, asclearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. In thus threading the buckle, therunning portion of the webbing isdeflected over and cushioned upon thebend 15 in the webbing formed adjacent to the fixed end 12 of thewebbing by passing the same over the lower bar of the frame.

I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed tc attach the fixed endof the webbing of avrustless buckle of the Peller type by means ofprongs struck out of a sheet-metal buckle-frame, whereby sewing iseliminated. I am also aware that it has been proposed to split the wireof a wireframe Peller buckle for the attachment of the fixed end of thewebbing without sewing. I do not, therefore, broadly claim a rustlessbuckle of the Peller type, having its frame adapted for the attachmentof the fixed end of the webbing, without resorting to sewing, but only arustless buckle of the Peller type, in which a wire buckle-frame is madeof a single piece of wire bent so as to adapt it to grip the fixed endof the webbing.

I claim:

1. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a one-piece wire-framehaving its lower bar bent to form a depending, upwardly-openinggripping-hook for the reception of the fixed end of the webbing uponwhich the hook is clamped, of a buckle-lever pivotally mounted upon theupper portion of the frame, and a piece of webbing having its fixed endinserted downwardly into the said hook, which is clamped upon it andthen passed from front to rear over the lower bar of the frame and thendownward to form a loop and then in front of the said hook and over thebend of the fixed end of the webbing and then under the gripping-edge ofthe said lever, and

then upward from front to rear for deflection by the buckle-lever overthe loopl formed adjacent to the fixed end of the webbing. v

2. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a. one-piece wire-frame,having its lowei` bar bent to form e plurality of dependingupwardly-opening grippinghooks, of a buckle-lever pivotelly mounted uponthe upper portion of the buckle-freine, and a piece of webbing havingits fixed end inserted into vthe seid hooks which are clamped upon it,end then passed from front to rear over the lower bar of the frameandthen downward to form a loop and then in front of the seid hookandover the bend of the fixed end of the webbing and then under thegripping-edge of the said lever, and then upward from front to rear fordeflection b the buckle-lever over the loop formed ad3acent to thekfixed end of the webbing.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

ROSWELL A. MOORE. Witnesses MARTIN T. LYNN, CHESTER LITTLE.

